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Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,299, dated September 20, 1887.

Application filed July 26, 1887. Serial No. 245.349.

A .To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

'De it known'that I, THOMAS D. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Holly Grove, in the county of Monroe and State of I Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Vire and Rail Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to combined rail and wire fences; and it has for its object to provide simple and durable means for securely fastening the rails and wires to the posts and the latter to the earth, so that the fences cannot be overturned by the wind or cattle.

It consists of the parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, is shown a perspective view of my improved fence.

A represents the posts, which are to be driven into or set upon the ground. The

u three posts on the righthand side ofthe view are of iron and driven into the earth at suitable distances apart, while the remaining posts, those on the left-hand side of the view, are of wood and set on sills which rest on rocks on the ground.

It often happens in building a fence that a hard rocky piece of land is reached to set posts in, which is a matter involving great labor, and it is to overcome this that Iconstruct my fence, or that portion of itwhich is to be built on land of the character above described, on the sills C. (Shown on the lefthand side of the view.) As there shown, the posts A taper from their bottom ends upward, being about two inchesless in diameter at the tops than at their bottoms. The lower ends are formed with a dovetal tenon, b, which is fitted in a mortise, c, formed in the sill C, said mortise being about three feet from one end of the sill and two feet from the other. At about eighteen inches from the top I let into each ofthe posts the upper end of a brace,

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D, which extends downwardly at an angle on I the inside of the fence and has its lower end i let into the sill C. I secure the fence to the earth by driving a stake, E, alongside the brace D, and nailing-the same to the brace and to the sill.

F F represent blocks of wood, stone, or any other suitable material, on which the ends of 'the sills rest, thus raising them from contact with the earth and preventing their decaying. As a further security against the fence being overturned, I may drive the metal staples G into the earth over each sill on one side.

The end posts of the fence have a suitable number of perforatons, d, formed iu them for the ends of the wires H, which are passed through the same and knotted or otherwise secured, so as to stand thestrain of stretching them. The wire is woven in and out about the intervening posts, and secured theretoby means of wire strands e, which are first crossed over the second wire H, and then about the post and crossed over the upper wire, binding the same rmly to the post, when the ends of perforations in the top rail, B', and clinched or otherwise firmly secured thereto. The wire H', which lies between the bottom rails of the fence, may be bound to the posts, or staples passed over it and into the posts. The top rail, B', is provided with mortises, each having one slanting and one straight end wall, and is large enough to receive the ends of the post, and a key or wedge, p, which is driven into the mortise alongside the post to fasten the rail securely thereon. The rails B of the fence are each provided with a block, M, at the point where they meet the posts, having an opening with one straight and one slanting end wall, through which the posts are passed. A wedge or key, p', is driven into the opening alongside the posts'totightly clamp the block and post together, and thus secure the rails in position.

l Thus it will be seen that I provide a very i durable and simplyconstructedfence, the

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rails and wires of which are rigidly secured Wrappingwires e, binding said Wires to the to the posts, so as not to be easily removed. posts, substantially as described.

Having thus described my invention, what I In testimony whereof I afx my signature in claim as new, andl desire to secure by Letters presence of two Witnesses. Y

A combined wire and rail fence consisting his THOMAS D. WILSON. of the posts A, secured to the earth in any m ark desired manner, the rails B and B', having Witnesses: mortises through which said posts pass,`the D. M. DIAL, ro wedges or keys p p', the Wires H H', and the W. C. SWIFT. 

